A text-book of electricity in medicine and surgery for the use of students and practitioners.

  • Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A text-book of electricity in medicine and surgery for the use of students and practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Hare's deflagrator, 271 Heart, faradisation of, 108 Heidenhain on refreshing effects, 60 Hemiplegia, rules for treating, 112 Histrionic spasm, 178 Hitzig on galvanisation of brain, 65 Holmes, Mr., case of aortic aneu- rism, 261 ; on galvano-puncture, 245 ; case of innominate aneu- rism, 260 ; case of traumatic ulnar aneurism, 261 Hydatid tumour of liver, treatment of, 239 Hydrocele, treatment of by galvano- puncture, 238 Hysterical paralysis, 100, HO ; case of, 141 INCONTINENCE of urine and faeces, treatment of, 115 Indirect method of faradising mus- cles, 79 Induced current, physiological action of, 69 Induction, 20; coils, 21 ; magnetic, 26; voltaic, 20 Infantile paralysis, 116 — — and progressive muscular atrophy compared, 121 Insanity, electricity in, 156, 176 Intensity, 15, 18 Inverse galvanic currents, 83 Irritability, qualitative and quanti- tative changes in, 95 JAUNDICE, electricity in, 151 KEY and commutator, 33 Kidder's rheophore, 73 Kiddle, Mr., on anaemia of the optic nerves, 155 Knott, Mr., on treatment of naevus, 238 LABOUR, electricity in, 149 Laryngeal rheophore, 88 Late rigidity, treatment of, 113 MUS Law, Pfliiger's, 57 Lead palsy, 109, 139 Leclanche battery, Weiss's, 34 Leelanche's elements, 8 ; figure of, 9 Legros and Onimus on electrisation of sympathetic, 66 Leydenjar, effects of shocks from, 54 Lifting apparatus, Mayer & Melt- zer's, 28; Stohrer's, 28; Weiss's, 28 Lightning, effects of, 53 ' Local action,' 41 — fatigue, 183 — paralysis, Sir W. Gull on, 127 Locomotor ataxy, joint affection in, 102; treatment of, 116 Longmore, Professor, on electric probe. 103 Lowe, Mr. John, on muscular irri- tability, 103 ' Lumbago' from caries, case of, 171; case of, 174 McGILL, Mr. A. F., case of sub- clavian aneurism, 266 McRae, Dr., on electricity in labour, 149 Magnetic induction, 26 Malingering, detection of, 102 Manner of using polar method, 84 Marie-Davy's element, 8 Martemucci, Dr., on electricity in labour, 149 Materia Medica, position of elec- tricity in, 1 Mayer & Meltzer's cautery battery, 273 ; lifting apparatus, 28 Mercurial tremor, 179 Methods of using electricity, 72 Meyer on diagnostic uses of elec- tricity, 89 ; on Graves's disease, 177 Miner's nystagmus, 185 Mobile method of using galvanism, 83 Motor points, 80 Muscle, reaction of, to currents, 65 Muscles, methods of influencing, 78 — used in writing, 189 Muscular troubles associated with neuralgia, 170